Author

René Descartes

René Descartes is documented in Fuller’s published essays (1845). No work is named in the surviving passages, all in Michelet’s History of France., and the most intensive engagement recorded is “mentioned”.

Engagement
Mentioned
Present in
Essays
Documented
1845
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Reprints, Memoirs passages, and repeat notes within a single manuscript are shown but never counted twice. Evidence for this author is selective, not exhaustive. Methodology →

When Fuller engaged with René Descartes

I. Childhood
II. Adolescence
III. Self-Directed
IV. Transcendentalist
V. New York1record
VI. Europe
✦. Memoirs (1852)
1810
1820
1832
1836
1844
1846
1850

This page brings together documented engagements currently identified within the Fuller Reading Worlds catalog.

Documentary evidence

Selected passages from Fuller’s own writings, in chronological order.

1845—

Michelet’s History of France.

“Michelet’s History of France.”
mentioned
“was succeeded by the Breton Abelard, and the Breton Decartes. Each of these three gave the impetus to the philosophy of his own age.”

Fuller, Margaret. "Michelet’s History of France." New-York Daily Tribune, 20 May 1845. · 20 May 1845